These are questions of human dignity that are very much being asked. Because what we are seeing now is not technology, it is not economics, it is humanity. The answer we’re trying to give is an invitation: out of the box, out of the cellars, out of the holes, out of the cover, out of the comfort zone. We are now asking ourselves the question, “This cannot have been everything”, it cannot be true that this wonderful dream of new possibilities of these digital media, of the global village that supplies people with information and expression on an equal level, has become the nightmare of a monitored, controlled society. Not the technological side of the digital revolution, but the cultural, the social. This is exactly the topic that we have been dealing with for 40 years now. This is the time when desktop computers appeared, the PC – the personal computer – came onto the market in 1981 and this is the moment when important, effective technology came into people’s personal lives. The fact that 40 years ago the social colonization of digital space began is where everything started. Gerfried Stocker: When it comes to Out of the Box, the subtitle is very important: The midlife crisis of the digital revolution. The festival theme “Out of the Box” – what is the meaning in the context of the theme exhibitions? They take us on a journey deep down into the POSTCITY bunker, the venue of the theme exhibition, where we not only encounter language, physical optimizations, robots that can run faster than we do, or even love, but also finally face our human limits. How far can we go as human beings, where are our personal limits, where are the limits of my body? Under the title “Human Limitations – Limited Humanity”, the 2019 Ars Electronica Festival‘s theme exhibition not only explores these simultaneously very individual questions, but also raises probably the greatest questions of society itself. Co-Producer Christl Baur and Gerfried Stocker, artistic director, are convinced that new technologies such as bioengineering and artificial intelligence make it more important than ever to reflect on the moral principles we have imposed on ourselves.
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